#Repost @veggiekins
DAY 5 #SinkIntoSavasana // Jules @omandthecity enjoys a Friday night in like I do. Honestly the weekend for me means recharge, not wreck my body and then crumble on Monday with little energy to start my week. Funny enough though, today I am going to a little event in the evening and seeing a fab friend (you'll have to tune into my story later to see who that is 😏) but an early night in followed by the gym and a face mask and lots of chocolate 🍫
Following up on my post from yesterday, I made a smoothie bowl using leftover facemask ingredients.
These ingredients are amazing for the skin.
AVOCADO – improves skin’s density, thickness, firmness and aging and moisturizes your skin too. When you eat avocado, you are consuming protective antioxidants, like beta-carotene, vitamin C and vitamin E, to prevent wrinkles and slow down the visible signs of aging.
TURMERIC – packed with antioxidants, reduces inflammation, can improve acne, eczema and dry skin. Evens skin tone and gives you a nice glow!
CINNAMON – has antimicrobial properties, can reduce acne scars. I recommend freshly grating your own cinnamon if you can, but if not feel free to use store bought ground cinnamon!
CACAO – protects skin, heals wounds and scars, improves skin hydration and bloodflow which gives you a healthy glow. Most importantly, tastes delicious.
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Adding these ingredients to a smoothie allows you to give your skin some extra love from the inside out. I recommend taking the remaining face mask mixture, tossing it into a blender and adding:
– 1-2 frozen bananas – 1/2 cup or more of nondairy mylk – extra cacao or cinnamon as you wish
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I topped my smoothie bowl with some @Loving_Earth chocolate and a side of @AddictiveWellness chocolate (packed with superherbs and adaptogens) as a snack. 💖
Happy Friday beautiful human beans. Hope you treat yourselves well this weekend ✨🌙

SUPPER CLUB :: My hands and fingers remembered so easily this morning. The kneading of dough. Waiting for the rise. The rolling out, and the gentle pinching. The aromas of adobo, chipotle, guajillo chiles. Sweet potatoes, coconut milk, cilantro. I cannot tell you with words the feelings that empanadas evoke. But I will be trying in the Autumn issue of @hocsupperclub magazine. Telling the very complicated story of my heritage, my roots. Remembering lingering moments in the kitchen and the first time my tiny hands folded the dough of an empanada. I am made up of a varying degree of percentages of places and people and all of those places find a meeting ground in the kitchen. If you haven't follow us over at @hocsupperclub. The stories, the people, the photos will take your breath away. Hope you are all having a magical week! ✨

So @tescofood have a great vegan and gluten free cheese sauce! 🧀🧀🧀 I added it to GF macaroni today with cauliflower, paprika and hot sauce. 🌶🌶 It’s a bit thin but I added nutritional yeast to make it a bit more cheesy! 🌶 It’s 50p a packet! 🧀🧀

Do you ever stop to just take a nice, deep breath?
The focus today in a free group I run is being present. This is something that I think is so often ignored in people’s lives.
We live in a world that’s go, go, go all the time. Things needed to be done yesterday, you have so many things to do before the end of the day, you have so many people tugging on you for your attention or your help, constantly pulling your focus outside of yourself.
We’ve all been there-and let me tell you, life is so much easier if you can take a step back, focus on a breath or two, then head back into the crazy world around you.
I try to get at least a little meditation done every day, but it’s not as weird as you’d think. I literally just sit and think about my breathing. I think about where I feel it, how deep or shallow it is, I listen to it and take a time to mentally disconnect from the outer chaos.
This little practice has changed my life in ways you couldn’t believe. When I start to get overwhelmed with every other aspect of life, it is so amazing to be able to stop, take a nice deep breath and have near instant inner quiet so that I can take on all other parts of my day with a clear head and total peace.
So! What do you do when life gets crazy? Just charge forward and hope for the best, or take a moment to anchor yourself?